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Show Cubs Hold Half Game Lead Over 2nd Place Cards As th-3 season draws to a close for Pleasant Grove's Little League, Leag-ue, the Cubs held a half game lead over the second place Cards in the pennant chase. The cubs can cinch first place by winning their remaining games with the Tigers and the Dodgei-s. The Cards remaining game is with the tough Pirates who defeated them in the first half. President Blake Fordham announced an-nounced that the annual All-Star game will be held Tuesday afternoon after-noon at the Campus. The game will pit the championship team against a picked team of all-stars all-stars from the other eight teams, coached by the managers of the second place team. President Fordham asked that all boys not participating in the game turn in their suits at that time. These suits must be in clean condition. The Cards staged a Frank Mer-riwell Mer-riwell finish Monday night to preserve pre-serve their slim chance for the championship. Trailing the Phillies Phill-ies 1 to 6 with two outs in the last inning, the Cards suddenly oame to life to score eight runs to win the game 9 to 6. Back to back triples by twins David and Donald Klemm and a home run by LuWayne Walker sparked the rally. Until the disastrous sixth nining, the Phillies played airtight air-tight ball and sparkled defensively defensi-vely with a neat double-play in the fifth. Lloyd Hooley, of the Lindon Utes, turned in what is probably probab-ly the finest pitching job of the season Friday when he hurled his team to a 9 to 1 victory over the Manila Giants. Lloyd allowed only one hit and struck out 5 5 batters in the six inning game. In other games the Dodgers scored twice in the last inning to edge the Giants 6 ito 5; the Utes downed the Pirates 10 to 7; the . Cards defeated the Braves 14 to 10, and the Tigera 22 to 2; and the Pirates upset the Phillies 8 to 5 behind Grant Atkinson's tight pitohing. Remaining games on schedule: Friday, August 14 Giants vs Braves at Park. Tigers vs Cubs at Lindon Oard3 vs Pirates at Campus. Saturday, August 15 Cubs vs Dodgers at Park, 9 am Tuesday, August 18 Ail-Star game at Campus 5:30 The standings: Won Lost Pet Cubs 12 2 .857 Cards 12 3 .800 Dodgers 10 4 .714 Phillies 10 5 .667 Pirates 8 7 .535 Utes 8 7 .535 Braves 3 11 .214 Giants 2 13 .133 . Tigers 1 14 .093 F 'v f 1 S-Sb t -ST 1 : j PARKING A PACHYDERM - London Most people have cars to park, but not Peter Cadbury (Right) of London. He's putting money In a parking meter not for an auto but for this eight-months-old Indian elephant named Sunderi. |
